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NestleInnovation Project Manager in
Seattle, Washington

Nestlé and Starbucks are bringing together the world’s most iconic coffee brands. Starbucks’ robust product portfolio celebrates coffee with rich tradition – customer experience is paramount. Coupled with Nestlé’s mission to enhance the quality of consumers’ lives and contributing to a healthier future, this strategic alliance will create career opportunities that will drive innovation and go-to-market strategies, bringing the best coffee to customers around the world.

It has never been a more exciting time to join (Nestlé Starbucks).

The Senior Project Manager will provide strategic leadership and initiative portfolio management for our Nestle Starbucks coffee and tea business. You will play a highly visible and critical role in setting the vision for our portfolio management process including defining optimal processes for product commercialization, go-to-market strategy and lifecycle management for new strategic product and packaging initiatives. You will oversee program and product readiness for the pipeline to ensure that it remains on-track to meet commitments, stage gate milestones from assessment to launch, performance expectations and needs of both the business and our consumers. This position is responsible for the overall initiative communication, coordination and management of processes, functions and across the NSC coffee and tea CPG business.

Summary of Key Responsibilities

-Lead management of and reporting for the NSC US CPG portfolio of new product and strategic portfolio initiatives

-Collaborate across teams to manage list of all active US CPG coffee and tea initiatives, track status and prepare summaries as needed and lead or participate in project prioritization meetings with senior leadership every quarter

-Communicate outcome of project prioritization meeting to cross-functional teams and ensure appropriate funds and resources are allocated across the enterprise to support all projects in the pipeline

-Reconcile strategic business plan targets (revenue, profit) with current initiative pipeline, identify and communicate gaps along with gap-closing proposals

-Communicate with and influence business leaders to make sound business decisions and manage risks

-Translate business strategies into clear initiative action plans

-Oversee the initiative development (product/packaging/supply) end to end and communicate status to senior leadership, including adherence to specifications, schedule, budget, product compliance and testing requirements

-Demonstrate desire and passion to lead breakthrough efforts with willingness to learn and explore outside of normal boundaries to accelerate results